"You go to bed and you dream about maybe winning, and then when you get up here, you don't remember what the hell to say," Malone, whose real name is Austin Post, said in his acceptance speech. "I just wanna say thank you to my family, thank you to my crew, everybody that was a part of the song. Thank you everybody for listening. Honestly in a hundred million years I would never expect to do this ever, so this is sick. Thank you so much, guys."

"Rockstar," released in September, marked Malone's first No. 1 single as a solo artist. See the full list of 2018 VMAs winners here.